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Titan’s Gravity Indicates a Thicker, Uneven Icy Crust

December 6, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Color composite of Titan and Dione made from Cassini images acquired in May 2011. (NASA/JPL/SSI/J. Major) It’s long been speculated that Saturn’s moon Titan may be harboring a global subsurface ocean below an icy crust, based on measurements of its rotation [...]

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The Awesome Complexity of Hypersonic Flight

May 18, 2012

Researchers at Stanford University are working on solutions to the inherent difficulties of hypersonic flight — speeds of over Mach 5, or 3,000 mph (4828 km/h) — and they’ve created one amazing computer model illustrating the dynamics of air temperature variations created at those intense speeds. Remove this ad

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Space Exploration By Robot Swarm

May 15, 2012

With all there’s yet to learn about our solar system from the many smaller worlds that reside within it — asteroids, protoplanets and small moons — one researcher from Stanford University is suggesting we unleash a swarm of rover/spacecraft hybrids that can explore en masse. Remove this ad

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